· Private foundation
The Stewards Fund
Its FY2021 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2021.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2021
- Under $10k16 grants · $69k
- $10k–50k24 grants · $466k
- $50k–250k8 grants · $697k
- $250k+2 grants · $750k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CASA | $500,000 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY ORANGE | $250,000 |
| HEALING TRANSITIONS | $150,000 |
| URBAN MINISTRIES OF DURHAM COUNTY | $104,600 |
| HOUSING FOR NEW HOPE | $100,000 |
| INTERFAITH COUNCIL FOR SOCIAL SERVICES | $71,677 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY WAKE | $71,250 |
| BIG BROTHER BIG SISTERS OF THE TRIANGLE | $71,163 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY ORANGE | $69,233 |
| INTERFAITH FOOD SHUTTLE | $58,645 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF DURHAM & ORANGE | $48,055 |
| FAMILIES MOVING FORWARD | $42,602 |
| SENIOR PHARMASSIST | $40,428 |
| HEALING TRANSITIONS | $40,000 |
| HOUSING FOR NEW HOPE | $33,814 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY20–21, $220k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +47% since the first grant, against +4% for the ones you funded once.
21 repeat relationships — 21 still active in FY2021, 0 since wound down; 19 grantees were first funded in FY2021 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2021, 66% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $673k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
HOUSING FOR NEW HOPE2× · 2020–2021 · $434k · revenue +50%- ICINTER-FAITH COUNCIL FOR SOCIAL SERVICE INC2× · 2020–2021 · $432k · revenue +0%
HEALING TRANSITIONS INC2× · 2020–2021 · $233k · revenue +32%
Funded once
- TRTRIANGLE RESIDENTIAL OPTIONS FOR SUBSTANCE ABUSERS INCone grant, 2020 · $400k · revenue +5%
HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF DURHAM INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $226k · revenue +62%
ALLIANCE MEDICAL MINISTRY INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $98k · revenue +39%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Build strong communities by developing, managing, and advocating for permanent affordable housing that provides durham residents with low to moderate incomes a stable foundation for achieving economic security.
Re-entry Program in Durham NC
To help families experiencing homelessness and low-income families achieve sustainable independence through a community based response
Provied temporary and emergency and low income housing and secured shelter.
Stepup partners with adults to transform their lives through training in life and employment skills.
Raleigh county community action association, inc. empowers individuals and families to reach their highest levels of social and economical self-sufficiency, while identifying and eliminating causes of poverty. rccaa provides direct…
Our mission is to leverage the power of community to address systemic causes of homelessness through coordinated response, education, data, and advocacy.
Provide Charlotte's low-income children and youth with the academic, spiritual, and social development necessary to become Christian leaders determined to restore their communities.
Guided by God, Habitat Cabarrus transforms lives and our community by uniting all of Cabarrus County around the cause of decent, affordable housing for everyone.
Secu family house at unc hospitals provides an affordable, safe, nurturing home away from home for seriously ill patients, their family members, and caregivers from throughout north carolina and beyond.
The Children's Home Society of North Carolina's mission is to promote the right of every child to a permanent, safe, and loving family.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Plm Families Together Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Encouraging Place. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 32 years old; the field is 11. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 28% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 15% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
35 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 35 of the 55 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds CASA ↗
- Who funds HOUSING FOR NEW HOPE ↗
- Who funds INTER-FAITH COUNCIL FOR SOCIAL SERVICE INC ↗
- Who funds TRIANGLE RESIDENTIAL OPTIONS FOR SUBSTANCE ABUSERS INC ↗
- Who funds HEALING TRANSITIONS INC ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF DURHAM INC ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF THE TRIANGLE INC ↗
- Who funds INTER-FAITH FOOD SHUTTLE ↗
- Who funds ALLIANCE MEDICAL MINISTRY INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILIES MOVING FORWARD ↗
- Who funds STUDENT U ↗
- Who funds SENIOR PHARMASSIST INC ↗
- Who funds PLM FAMILIES TOGETHER INC ↗
- Who funds DURHAM CHILDREN'S INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds PASSAGE HOME INC ↗
- Who funds URBAN MINISTRIES OF WAKE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds Meals on Wheels of Durham Inc ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF DURHAM AND ORANGE COUNTIES ↗
- Who funds NEIGHBOR TO NEIGHBOR MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN HEALTH CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY PROMISE OF WAKE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds KIDZNOTES INC ↗
- Who funds THE GREEN CHAIR PROJECT ↗
- Who funds Partners for Youth Opportunity ↗
- Who funds THE COMMUNITY EMPOWERMENT FUND ↗
- Who funds THE HOPE CENTER AT PULLEN INC ↗
- Who funds Wake Enterprises Inc ↗
- Who funds OAK CITY CARES INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Triangle Community Foundation Inc · United Way of the Greater Triangle Inc · The Leon Levine Foundation · Duke University Health System Inc · Duke University · Duke Energy Foundation · Aj Fletcher Foundation · North Carolina Community Foundation · Carolinas Credit Union Foundation · Truist Foundation Inc · Realtor Foundation of Wake County · The Mary Duke Biddle Foundation Missionpost Pmb #101
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization The Stewards Fund funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.
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Find your warmest path to The Stewards Fund through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.
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